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Adam Portraiture Award and Exhibition
The Adam Foundation sponsors a biennial award for portraiture. Winners
'Lucy', 'Meren and Josie', 'Hans' and 'The Blue Girl' are in our on-line gallery and appear in the logo above.
Pictured at right are Denis Adam, benefactor and Avenal McKinnon, Director of
NZPG.
Adam Award 2010
Starting July 2009 entries will again be invited for the Adam Award. Entry documents will be available on this site . The next Adam Portraiture award will be held in 2010, and about 100 of the best entries will be on show in our gallery at Shed 11 from 24th February until 11 April 2010. Although no longer current, you can see examples of entry documents from 2008.
Adam Award 2008
On Wednesday 20 February 2008, the Adam Portaiture exhibition began with the winner being announced and then exhibited in Wellington from 21 February until 30 March 2008. A touring selection exhibited at Lopdell House Auckland 17 April to 8 June 2008, then at the Eastern Southland Gallery in Gore and concluded at the Hawke’s Bay Exhibition Centre from 12th September – 12th October 2008.
See the selections or download a pdf file of all 36 images with captions (850kb - 2 minutes on dialup)
The 2008 Adam Award held in Shed 11, was judged by Lilly Koltun of Le
Musée de Portrait du Canada. http://www.portraits.gc.ca/
Pictured at right are artist Irene Ferguson and judge Lilly Koltun with the winning painting - The Blue Girl.
On the left are the highly commended oil painting by Justin Pearson of Alan Pearson (in dark shirt) entitled “Dad”, and “In His Element” by Denise Simmonds, a watercolour portrait of Graham Clyde Henry.
Lower right Freeman White the 2006 winner congratulates Irene.
A conditon of the Adam Award is that the The New Zealand Portrait Gallery keeps the winner of the Competition for its own collection. These cannot be permanently hung at present.
The original documentation for entering the 2008 awards can be found on our archives page.
History
In 2000 Marianne Muggeridge won the inaugural New Zealand Portrait Gallery's National Portrait Competition judged by Charles Saumarez Smith, Director of London's National Portrait Gallery. She won again in 2002 in the renamed Adam Portrait Award judged by Andrew Sayers, Director of the Australian National Portrait Gallery. The winner in 2004 was Ryuzo Nishida, judged by Marc Pachter, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, Washington and the winner 2006 was Freeman White, judged by James Holloway, Director of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.
Other categories of The National Portrait Competition of
2000:
Sculpture - winner Terry Stringer
Multimedia - Sean Kerr
Photography - Janice Abo Cianis